i hate to say it but i just wouldn't have made it out alive without my internet friends & the escapism social media gave me when i was suffering at home & at school
I feel like I'm not being dramatic in saying that this will kill kids. I turned to social media when I was 15 because I had no friends, and it saved my life. I can't imagine what it's like for today's kids, especially those who are LGBTQ+ and live in dangerous home environments.
@kixmrm exactly, as sad as it is, young people rely on social media & the internet for connection & escapism from whatever they're going through. stripping that away from them is only going to harm them MORE
Read that again:
“The average terror suspect arrested in England and Wales is now a white woman in her 50s.”
That’s because of the proscription of Palestine Action.
It is absurd. It is self evidently absurd.
And history will damn every last person implicated
“Giving children their childhood back?”
So reopening the 2,000 youth clubs closed under neoliberalism? The 1,000 children’s centres?
Recreating the 10,000 + playing fields lost?
Or the 800 playgrounds lost in the last 10 years?
The 1,000 libraries?
The after-school clubs closed?
that’s the question isn’t it. what WILL she do? there are no youth clubs for her to attend. food, cinema tickets, any sort of third space activity is all too expensive. their parents are underpaid, saturday jobs don’t exist any more, children have truly been abandoned by the govt
It’s the first time in British history that protesters have been sentenced as terrorists despite not being convicted of any terror offences. It’s total bullshit.
Social Media ban / curfew
Phone scanning
Digital ID
Online Safety Act
Smoking ban
Facial scanning
Face covering ban
Sentencing protesters as terrorists
What the actual fuck is going on and why does nobody seem to give a shit?
Watching Zionist shills freak out that a juror can talk honestly about a trial after it is complete is the only real silver lining to an otherwise very dark cloud.
Jurors absolutely should complain about having crucial facts/context hidden from them.
The WHOLE truth?